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Ferrante, O., Jensen, O. and Hickey, C. (accepted)  Predictive distractor processing relies on integrated proactive and reactive attentional mechanisms. J Neurosci Using MEG with time-resolved multivariate decoding, we examined whether statistically learned distractor locations are proactively represented in brain activity. During a visual search task with a spatially biased distractor, classifiers decoded distractor location both before stimulus onset and after distractor pr

Lijuan Wang with her advisors, Ole Jensen and Steven Frisson. Thanks to Caroline Witton and Cathy Manning for serving as examiners at the PhD viva.

Kong, Y., Yuan, X., Dand, C., Wang, Y., Huang, J., Guo, J., Jensen, O., Sun, L., and Song, Y. (in press). Altered Processing of Auditory Distractions Under Competing Inputs in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.  J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2025.11.003 This paper, created in collaboration with Beijing Normal University, outlines neural correlates of distractibility in children with ADHD. In typically developing childre

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Brickwedde, M., Limachya, R., Markiewicz, R., Sutton, E., Postzich, C., Shapiro, K., Jensen, O., and Mazaheri, A. (2025) Cross-modal interaction of Alpha Activity does not reflect inhibition of early sensory processing: A frequency tagging study using EEG and MEG. eLife 14:RP106050 Https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106050.3   This study provides evidence regarding the role of alpha oscillations in sensory gain control. We use an attention-cueing task in an initial EEG study, foll

Ole Jensen delivered his inaugural lecture as University Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford University's brand-new Life and Mind Building on the 3rd of November 2025. The talk covered the research that his group, Neuronal Oscillations, has been conducting: from Large Language Models and working memory to spatial attention and paediatric OPM-MEG systems. The seminar linked fundamental cognitive processes to natural reading, aiming to translate research in

Neuronal Oscillations group members will lead a symposium on using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) for insights into attention and cross-modal integration. RIFT is a powerful novel tool for tagging sensory processing, making it a great alternative to SSVEPs. The symposium presentations will cover the current use of RIFT by our group members and collaborators in aspects such as speech comprehension, parafoveal processing in natural reading, resolving word boudary ambi

The lecture will take place on Monday, 3rd November 2025 in the Life and Mind Building at 4 pm https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/catz-fellow-inaugural-lecture/

Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Woodman, G.F., Lin, R., Chen, F., Weng, X., Jensen, O., Theeuwes, J., and Wang, B., (in press). Automaticity speeds the retrieval of instances from the human hippocampus. PNAS This paper was created in collaboration with the Benchi Wang Group. Our study explored automatic processing, which involves performing a task with little conscious effort. A good example of this is not remembering how you drove through a set of intersections just a few minutes prior